MORE VINTAGE FABRICS AND SEW HIP NEWS

I prepared a lot of vintage fabric squares last week and the new listings for Monday contain many English and French fabric ones plus some vintage sewing cottons and trims.
Click here to be whisked away to the new listings page on the Rag Rescue website.

Yesterday was very hectic as the new monthly 'SEW HIP' magazine had just arrived in the shops. I am very pleased with the article that has been written about the website especially as I was contacted only a day before I left for my bi-monthly jaunt to the Antique fairs and it was such a rush to get all of the questions answered in such a short time.
It is obvious that this new magazine is a big success and I can see why, as it is full of beautiful items to make, articles and inspirations.
The orders came in fast and furious yesterday, so there was no time for having a Sunday break. My husband managed to buy the magazine at a tiny newsagents in Morecambe but it is available on-line and shipping is worldwide.

Busy preparing for more listings.

The fairs were very busy, I've never seen so many people visiting them. I'm not sure what happened to the recession, it certainly seem to be around last week.I did however manage to find time to go out buying and found some wonderful old fabrics which are now drying ready for ironing and being organised into scrapbags, squares and stash bags. I also came across two boxes of haberdashery hidden amongst a pile of furniture. It contained loads of tassels and packets of old sequins amongst other odds and ends. I also found some more old lace, collectors will be pleased to hear. All will be revealed in due course.

The other interesting thing was that I spotted a furniture dealers van from Scotland. I recognised the the name as we had seen the advert for them at the side of the road on our holiday last October. My husband spoke to the owners as we had spotted outside their stall, a wonderful carved wooden bear stool. Unfortunately we didn't buy the bear as he was over a thousand pounds but we did find out something interesting. During the course of the conversation my husband told them that we were looking for old fabrics and to our delight he said he had cases of old fabrics stored away. A trip to Scotland is now on our list of things to do very soon, I can't wait to rescue these fabrics from their storage. Fingers crossed that they are just wonderful and still usable.

Friday 13th is a GOOD day - Rag Rescue is listing again

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I like it when Friday 13th comes along. It always makes me think of my dear father. He was born on Friday 13th and he was such a good, kind caring man. Sadly he is no longer with us but tomorrow I will think of him all day.

I thought I would add some old patchwork hexagon pieces to the site as I know I have customers who like to re-use them in their own work. There are some lovely old fabric patterns.
Some more 6" squares are being added and a few of my own creations as I've been asked for them to be shown. I hope you like them all.

Vintage fabric listings- Monday 19th January

Click on the image above to go to the Rag Rescue website.

Yesterday I was busy cutting more vintage fabric squares for you to look at. The fabric squares comes in 4", 5" and 6". Unfortunately I only managed to get one square out of some fabrics but with other fabrics there are a variety of sizes.
I'll will also be listing some larger pieces of fabric on the site, a mixture of French, German and English fabrics. There are some lovely fabrics with roses on for those of you that enjoy creating with rosy fabrics.

The items in the image above and many more will be listed tomorrow morning Monday 19th January

I will be listing again on Tuesday 20th January and will place another preview of the items being placed on the site. So check out this blog tomorrow.

I would like to thank all of the numerous customers I have had this month so far. I hope you enjoyed your items and are busy creating wonderful pieces. of art work with them. Don't forget to send me a photo of your creations so that I can place them in the gallery.

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